Bug 718657

Summary:	libsdp is missing in RHELL6
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Kirby Zhou <kirbyzhou>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	6.1	CC:	dledford, notting
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Description Kirby Zhou 2011-07-04 07:27:14 UTC

Description of problem:

libsdp is missing in RHELL6.

libsdp is a component of OFED which is the industry standard of InfiniBand linux driver.

RHEL5 is released with libsdp-1.1.99, but RHEL6 misses this package.
libsdp is very useful to boost up network performance of legacy applications within an Infiniband environment. With libsdp, the network bandwidth can boost up from 9Gbit/s to 20Gbit/s.

Please bring us the libsdp back.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RHEL-6.0, RHEL-6.1

Comment 3 Doug Ledford 2011-07-05 23:05:23 UTC

This is not a bug, it is intentional.  Libsdp relies upon the sdp kernel module, which is also not present in RHEL6 as the sdp kernel driver was never, and will never, make it into an upstream kernel.  As it was a stopgap measure until the needed applications where ported to a native RDMA transfer methodology, and as they have now had close to 5 years to get it done, it is time for sdp to go away.